AJ
I may not be online later, but feel free to vent here. I'm sorry for whatever's going on in me that's contributing to what I'm seeing as all of these lousy starts from AJ. Hopefully, the Yanks can rally. Go Yanks!
posted by Kalel9 @ 5:42 PM
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AJ is in a bad place. I believe that he has talent but I'm not sure NY is the place for him. The Yanks starters all seem to be struggling right now....perhaps the organization needs to look at Eiland/coaching. AJ can look good for two or three innings and then he comes unraveled. We can't win again without top starting pitching. The Rays will make us pay.
I'll say it until I keel over...AJ would be great as a one inning reliever.
Eiland definitely gets a free ride.
Cash seems to have a blindspot with him.
I can't log into LoHud right now.
What a signing that Swish has turned out to be.
It was a great trade. We need to stop screwing around.
Swish may be Cash's best pure trade (as opposed to A-Rod, which was a salary dump).
OTOH, he may given have Girardi too many toys. I don't like PHing for Gardner, and as for trades, if Granderson becomes a platoon player, that trade probably stinks.
I think the Yankees need to take a long, hard look from the top down in the area of pitching coaches, both majors and minors.
A-Rod needs to do that second surgery if his hip is robbing him of this much ability, as rumored.
I hope Cashman makes a legitimate effort to secure a good reliever to compliment Rivera and Robertson this offseason, and doesn't neglect the bench for once.
Last night on MLB Network, Harold Reynolds showed some video of Arod hitting well up to number 599, and how he has looked since. He showed Arod getting hit with a fastball square on the left hand after he hit 599. He showed clearly how Arod generates so much power with pulling his left hand thru the hitting zone and releasing his wrist. This creates bat speed much the same way a golfer creates club head speed. He showed video since Arod was HBP and he is clearly not using the left hand in the same manner. It's all conjecture, but there may be a problem with that left hand. As MikeK states, he also has the hip injury, but that has been there all year. Food for thought.
Another take on A-Rod.
I think it's the hip. He's not going to hit 40+ home runs ever again, but I have no doubt in my mind that, with a healthy hip, he's a 30-35 HR, 100 RBI guy still.
We need to shop Burnett as his contract nears its end. He's a fourth/fifth starter for us at best.
I think Cash knows that Jeter, A-Rod, and Posada are in differing degrees of trouble, and that is why he got two bats and tried to get more.
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